180 vs inflection

180

noun
  • An instance of spinning 180 degrees, so that one is facing in the opposite direction. 

  • The friendly welcome was a 180 from what she had been expecting 

  • The exact opposite. 

  • A complete change of direction or opinion. 

inflection

noun
  • A turning away from a straight course. 

  • Change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories. 

  • Diffraction. 

  • Any form produced by such an instance of a change, such as the principal parts for any given stem: any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation. 

  • An affix representing such an instance. 

  • A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave. 

  • A change in pitch or tone of voice. 

  • An instance of such change. 

How often have the words 180 and inflection occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )